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More than 50 years of planetary exploration have yielded a rich harvest of data, including many volumes of pictures. These images have revealed the faces of nearly all the nearby worlds, which have turned out to be both forboding and…

I had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Ed Stone as part of the Riding with Robots podcast back in 2007. He’s the Project Scientist for the Voyager mission to the outer planets and, now, interstellar space. He was also…

I had the privilege of sitting down with Dr. Ashwin Vasavada as part of the Riding with Robots podcast back in 2007. He’s deputy project scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory mission. He gave a clear explanation of the mission’s…